Did Jesus want to die on the cross?

Question

Don't say "he didn't but he had to". He's supposed to be God and God is omnipotent so he did NOT have to.

If he didn't want to, then why did he? He's god.

Answer 1

The whole trinity thing is very confusing. He had to be separate from God for at least a part of his sojourn on earth. So he had to be crucified because that's exactly what his father sent him here for.
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Answer 2

You fail to realize that God is also a JUST God, and requires that we pay the price for our sin. The price for our sin is death (I'm sure you've heard all THIS before in other answers!). But God is also a LOVING God, and He does not want us to "die" (to be without Him in Heaven).

He, God The Father, then decided that if His own Son, Jesus, who was without sin, would pay the price of death, that would satisfy the "justness" of His nature. Therefore, when Jesus came to earth and took our human form, He carried out that "sentence" so that none of us would have to pay the price of death and we'd all have the opportunity to be with Him for eternity. It is now our choice to make: Do we believe in what He did, or do we not?

As for Jesus wanting to die on the cross, did it matter HOW he died? He could have died by suffocation, or drowning, or stoning, whatever. "How" He died is not the issue... it is "THAT" He died (and rose from the dead, of course... yet another issue you've likely seen on YA before!) is the issue.

His flesh may have been weak, as all of our flesh is, but His spirit was stronger, and with God The Father's help, He got through the worst part of His suffering, which for Him was only "temporary" (considering the eternity which He exists!).

Your statement, "don't say 'he didn't but he had to,'" practically exempts the only, and true answer to the question.

Answer 3

Ask any human being if they want to die, and the majority would say, 'No'. Therefore, I would have to say that Jesus wouldn't have wanted to die.

A concept is an integration, it takes a number of entities, abstracts away certain measurements, and ends up with a new combined whole. 'Omnipotence' tries to take a concept, 'ability', and integrate it with contradiction,
'unbounded', which violates the axiom of identity.

The result is a term which seems to mean something, but is in contradiction with reality and existence and is rationally unusable.

Like all children, believers in God need to grow up.

Answer 4

Do you want an honest answer to your question or NOT?! Why do you tie our hands, by telling us not to say,'he didn't but he had to' for in that statement is the sum of what Christ truly did on the cross, and for us SINNERS!
There is NO supposing to it. Jesus was GOD incarnate, and was, is, and forevermore will be omnipotent!!! PTL!
But to answer your question, 'Did Jesus want to die on the cross?' Look at what Jesus Himself said, about His soon dying on that cruel cross of Calvary:
"O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will" (Matthew 26:39b).
Jesus, in His last hours on earth, agonized so much over dying and that being on the cross by crucifixion, that the Bible tells us, He sweat as it were 'drops of blood'!!!
Obviously He didn't want to die on the cross, and bequested of the Father in Heaven, if another way to SAVE mankind, and take on the SINS of the world were possible. No other way was possible! And Jesus died on the cruel cross in our place, yours and mine, and everyone else on earth!!!

Answer 5

Jesus was not God, He was the Son of God, Jesus obeyed His Father and died on the cross for our sins. When Jesus was dying on the cross, He turned his eyes to Heaven and said Father forgive them, for they know not what they do. Jesus was asking God to forgive the people who crucified Him!

Answer 6

He was born to go to the cross, but he was human so i dont think he would want to it would have been the most painful way to die, he loved us so much, he did it for us, I suppose your right, he did not have to, he could have come into this world as the brightest, richest, wisest of all people ever born! But he didnt, because he wanted to show us how we should live, not show off to us how he could live. He was born to a poor carpenter, lived a humble life, then died, to show us lot how he understands how difficult it is to live in this world, but there is a way we can make it easier for ourselves. He showed us how, but no one wanted to hear it. He went to the cross for us.

Answer 7

Jesus did not want to dies on the cross. It says in Matthew 26:39 it says And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. He didn't want to die, but he knew it wasn't what he wanted but what god wanted.
have a blessed day.

Answer 8

No, Jesus did not really want to die on the cross. The night before He was crucified, He prayed that would not have to die, but He accepted death as part of the Father's plan for our salvation.

Answer 9

You have not read the scripture, or if you have, you didn't understand them. Please recall His prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. He asked the Father "if it be possible to let this cup pass from me, nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt." In other words, he didn't want to but He knew it was part of the plan to accomplish the atonement for all mankind. Yes, Christ could have called upon the hosts of heaven to free Himself from the situation, but He knew that in order to fulfill His mission as our Savior, He had to let the scenario play itself out. There was no other way for Him to be the Savior of mankind. He did as God had directed should be done. Was that cruel of God to have His Son sacrificed for us? It was hard to do, I am sure, but God knows and so did Christ, that the eternal results and rewards would far outweigh the temporary mortal suffering. That is a lesson for all of us, mortality is only temporary. The spirit is eternal and that is what we should be planning for.

Answer 10

There are many unpleasant things we go through for the people we love, like watching movies that my wife likes. but no matter how painful or gut-wrenching the experience gets, we do it out of love, as Jesus did. Yes, Jesus wanted to do the will of the Father and that was his will.